reform
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"We have said from the outset that Unison is not opposed to reform of the health service," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Macron's office said after the ruling that the French government would work "as quickly as possible" to propose a new draft and said the president was determined to see the reform implemented by early 2027.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The presidency said Macron's determination to see the reform implemented remained undiminished.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Flock has claimed the company will reform its policies to address these issues, but history suggests it would be unwise to trust them.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
As I watched the genuine affection of these merchant brothers, I wondered if I could reform a man like Samir, to make him honest.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Businesses will be able to receive up to AUS$25,000 in support to help them adjust to the reforms, with help also offered to gun-dealers.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
"It costs a lot of money to run it and the government really does need to introduce good reforms to make it more sustainable so that it is here for generations to come," Orban says.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Leaders after Zhu, notably President Hu Jintao, reversed some of Zhu’s reforms, especially on state-owned enterprises, and ended the free-market drive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Those reforms sparked a boom in real estate and construction, which would soar to become a quarter of China's economy before a crippling debt crisis struck in 2020.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
It called on reforms in education, employment, property rights, religion, and, most notably, suffrage.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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The university also hired a new provost and new deans and reformed its discipline policies to make them “more consistent, fair and effective,” Garber has said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
A week later, he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which reformed Medicaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Even some Canadian economists and pundits have called for it to be dismantled or reformed.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
By 2016, the group reformed as a trio with Bennett, Slayton and new member Jazzy Mejia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Was Mandela the same man who went to prison twenty-seven years before, or was this a different Mandela, a reformed Mandela?
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Andy Burnham has invited the leaders of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats for talks on reforming social care in England.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"One way of reforming this rigid system is to start with our own families," said Norlina Rambu Jola Kalunga, 54, a noblewoman who inherited five atas when she married the son of a royal family.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
In 2002, Congress created the Election Assistance Commission to administer the Help America Vote Act, which assists states in reforming their elections.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
The author, a professor of history at Cambridge University, is on firm ground when he describes Khrushchev as the key figure in reforming post-Stalinist life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Beside it, the spilled ink seeps back into its jar, the glass fragments reforming around it.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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